GeForce 8600M GT SLI vs Quadro P600

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking499not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation6.88no data
Power efficiency14.75no data
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)G8x (2007)
GPU code nameGP107NB8P-GS
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date7 February 2017 (7 years ago)23 October 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$178 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores38464
Core clock speed1430 MHz475 MHz
Boost clock speed1620 MHzno data
Number of transistors3,300 million598 Million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)40 Watt20 Watt
Texture fill rate38.88no data
Floating-point processing power1.244 TFLOPSno data
ROPs16no data
TMUs24no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16no data
Length145 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR3, GDDR2
Maximum RAM amount4 GB1 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1252 MHz700 MHz
Memory bandwidth80.13 GB/sno data
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsPortable Device Dependentno data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)10
Shader Model6.7no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL3.0no data
Vulkan1.3-
CUDA6.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 February 2017 23 October 2007
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 1 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 80 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 40 Watt 20 Watt

Quadro P600 has an age advantage of 9 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 471.4% more advanced lithography process.

8600M GT SLI, on the other hand, has 100% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro P600 and GeForce 8600M GT SLI. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro P600 is a workstation card while GeForce 8600M GT SLI is a notebook one.


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